Eco-Friendly House Designed using Google Sketchup (and How it Relates to Charlottesville)

Many Internet users rely on Google to instantly find information about almost anyone and anything. Philippe and Thao Jeanty went a step further. They used Google to design their solar-powered home in rural Fairview.

â€œThe beauty of Google Sketchup is you can move things around until it looks good. Anything Google does is good. And it’s free,â€ said Philippe, a physician who practices radiology in Nashville.

Using Google Sketchup, a 3D modeling program usually used by architects, engineers and other design professionals, not homeowners, the couple drew the plans for their home and all of its high-tech, low-environmental-impact features on a computer screen.

Interestingly, the house appears to have cost a not-obscenely-exhorbitant amount and is almost completely off the grid.

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I am a Realtor/Broker/Partner with Nest Realty in Charlottesville, Virginia. The goal of this site/blog remains unchanged in the nearly 10 years since its founding – to provide clear, coherent and unbiased analysis of the Charlottesville area real estate market.